July 3, 2012

Full disclosure

My wife Maggie started back at work part-time this week, in her new job as a political and media advisor to the Green Party. So from now on I’ll be as biased towards the Greens as I was towards the Parliamentary Press Gallery when Maggie was their Deputy Chair.

I’m blogging less in general these days because of the twin demands of work and my nine-month old daughter. Being in charge of the happiness of someone else’s childhood is a big responsibility. (It still seems crazy that the hospital just let us take her home with us.)

So … while you have your hands full looking after a helpless creature with almost no self-preservation instincts, limited inter-personal communications skills and an inbuilt instinct to cause disorder and mess wherever it goes, Maggie is doing the same?

So … while you have your hands full looking after a helpless creature with almost no self-preservation instincts, limited inter-personal communications skills and an inbuilt instinct to cause disorder and mess wherever it goes, Maggie is doing the same?

At least Maggie won’t be changing daipers – Russel and Metiria have been potty trained to only poop on Labour’s polling numbers.

@Richard29: give her a chance, she’s not even 1 yet. I’d be surprised if she’s producing anything more than speeches for Labour leaders and National party responses to questions in the house. All you’re likely to get is “lalalalalala”. At least Key can add “I can’t hear you”.

Hugh, definitely. But at the same time it’s not often you get a political party poking fun at themselves, so I’m inclined to give them points for trying. They also have to be ready for failblog to repost selected quotes from that to score political points. Normally politicians being funny is more accidental satire… see almost anything Tony Abbott says, for example.